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more frightening

ADJECTIVE

scary, shocking

Synonyms

WEAK

alarming appalling atrocious awesome awful chilling daunting dire direful dismaying disquieting dread dreadful fearful fearsome formidable ghastly grabber grim grisly gruesome hair-raising hairy harrowing hideous horrendous horrible horrid horrifying inconceivable intimidating lurid macabre menacing morbid ominous petrifying portentous repellent spooky terrible terrifying traumatic unnerving unspeakable

Antonyms

WEAK

calming comforting pleasing

ADJECTIVE

fearsome

Synonyms

STRONGEST

daunting disheartening

WEAK

formidable rebarbative redoubtable

Antonyms

WEAK

comforting

Example Sentences

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"And in some ways, I think that's even more frightening."

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

A second opinion may be even more frightening.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

The film’s comedy won’t appeal to all tastes, but some will welcome the leavening effect it has on the movie’s more frightening aspects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

I only bring this up because director/cinematographer Dana Gonzales revealed the lengths to which the team went to make the Xenomorph even more frightening.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

Though he’d trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with this shame.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo